cmatthes Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 That's REALLY cool, Rich!Did you do the work? If not, who helped out? Great idea, great execution there in bringing another one back from the dead.
gorch Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 Thanks guys. Almost forgot to show off one of my favorite parts of this guitar. Had to keep the ink stamped serial number on the back of the headstock, but didn't want a little window of black in Sea Foam. Decided to do a stinger to blend the black back of the headstock with the green. I'm not a big fan of black and Sea Foam next to each other so I came up with this. So, that is serious work! Only a few manage to keep the stamp alive.
RichF Posted August 13, 2012 Author Posted August 13, 2012 I originally planned on doing all the work myself. Seeing some previous work and some extra glue in the neck pickup rout had me a little worried about things there. So, I took it Jim Mouradian (Boston area luthier/expert) to make sure everything was OK and decided to have him do the woodwork and drill the holes for the bridge.Jim did all the filling and drilling and I did the finish.I'll see what in progress pics I have when I get home later.
Bennyboy-UK Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 I'm really rather keen on that!Very nice indeed, salvage to superstar.
RichF Posted August 13, 2012 Author Posted August 13, 2012 I found a couple pics with the old finish stripped. I did clean up that bit of finish in the control cavity too.
Hfan Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 Thanks guys. Almost forgot to show off one of my favorite parts of this guitar. Had to keep the ink stamped serial number on the back of the headstock, but didn't want a little window of black in Sea Foam. Decided to do a stinger to blend the black back of the headstock with the green. I'm not a big fan of black and Sea Foam next to each other so I came up with this. So, that is serious work! Only a few manage to keep the stamp alive. And a stinger, I love stingers. Great restoration. Also, nice dark rosewood board. My 93 Special has a nice dark board, Hamers must have had a great source for wood.
Toadroller Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 Thanks guys. Almost forgot to show off one of my favorite parts of this guitar. Had to keep the ink stamped serial number on the back of the headstock, but didn't want a little window of black in Sea Foam. Decided to do a stinger to blend the black back of the headstock with the green. I'm not a big fan of black and Sea Foam next to each other so I came up with this. You sandbagger! Nice work. Very nice.
Never2Late Posted August 14, 2012 Posted August 14, 2012 What issues posed the need for a slightly slanted bridge? Or is the Pickup slanted?Looks terrific, BTW....
burningyen Posted August 15, 2012 Posted August 15, 2012 What issues posed the need for a slightly slanted bridge? The issue was intonation.
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